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D. REYNOLDS. TYPE SETTING AND DISTEIBUTING MACHINE.

"No. 251,380. Patented Deo. 27,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEicE.

DEXTER REYNOLDS, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

TYPE SETTING AND DlSTRlBUTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 251,380, dated December 27, 1881.

Application filed April 26, 1881.

AYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Type Setting and Distributing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates solely to improvements in those channels, when vertical, of type-distributing machines into which the type are to he distributed (which channels I denominate receiving-channels) by the addition of a feather fixed into or to the rear walls of such ot' them as are intended to receive the thinnest type, extending vertically from the top downward to any desired extent, operating in conjunction with a notch made in the foot end of the type, and also .co-operating with other feathers iixed into or to one or both of the side walls of the channels, adapted to work in corresponding notches in the edge or edges ofthe type.

The object of my invention is the providing of mechanism by which, in a type-distributing machine, the thinnest type may be distributed into vertical channels as successfully as the thickest, by guiding or compelling such type as the spaces, points, lowercase t, 1, i,77 &e., topass down horizontally, andsotoliewith their sides one on top of the other, instead of falling edgewise, as they would often otherwise be liable to do, thus allowing the type to be set directly from the channels into which they are distributed by the attachment of setting mechanism thereto, and so enabling to be performed in one single machine both the setting and the distributing of the type, instead of its having to be done by separate and detached machines, with the necessity of the removal of the type from one to the other. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is a perspective view of a channel, with parts broken away and illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a top view of my improved channel. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a type adapted for the channel, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of a channel. Fig. 5 is a top view of a series of channels (with my improvement) arranged in a circle. Fig. 6 is a (No model.)

top view of a series of channels (with my improvement) arranged in a straight line. Figs. 7 and 8 are sectional elevations of a series of my improved channels, taken at dotted lines :v in Figs. 5 and 6, with a series of distributing-channels placed thereover, holding in line the type to be distributed. Fig. 9 is a front elevation, on an enlarged scale, of a channel containing one part of my invention; and Fig. 10 is a sectional elevation ofachannel, on the same enlarged scale, containing another part of my invention.

At the center of therear wall of each receiving-channel a, designed to receive the thinnest type, as the spaces, points, lower-case t, 1, i, &c., I insert or attach a feather or guide, b, as shown in Figs. 2 an'd 4, made of brass or any suitable material, of about one thirty-second of an inch in thickness, commencing at the top or mouth of the channels, extending outward from the rear wall a suitable distancesay about the one thirty-second part of an inchand continued downward vertically any desired length. This feather, fitting a nick provided therefor in the foot ofthe type, (shown in Fig. 3,) which feather b, in conjunction with the similar feathers, c c, on the side walls ofthe channel, (shown also in Figs. 2 and 4,) fitting suitable nicks provided therefor on the side edge ofthe type (shown in Fig. 3) and designed to prevent the type from tipping endwise, causes the thinnest type to descend horizontally in a vertical channel.

It is evident it is immaterial how the type are fed over the channels provided with these feathers or guides, Whether in line one on top of the other, or single type at a time one after the other; or whether by a continuous reciprocating or intermittent movement; or what the number of the channels; or whether arranged in a circle or straight line; or how the channels themselves are made, whether separate and removable or fixed, as by partitions, on a plate or grooved into a solid piece. or otherwise; or whether both the side feathers, c, are on the same or different sides of a channel, or which side; also, that the pins d d, (shown in Figs. 2 and 4,) although Well-known devices for selecting type, do not and cannot perform the oliices of the feathers c c, although such feathers, as well as feather b, may and must IOC lrod to the other.

of necessity, more or less, act as selecting-pins as well as guides, and might be substituted for such pins, as shown by c' c', Fig. 6; but the pins could not be substituted for them.

I am aware that heretofore, as early as 1875, side guides or feathers similar to the side feathers, o, had been used to prevent the type from tipping endwise, and to act also as selecting-pins, and I do not therefore claim them as my invention.

I am also aware that it has been attempted to distribute type Without the employment of channels to hold the type intended for distribution, or others to receive them when distributed, by the use of a vertical rod with its edges or sides beveled outward, its smallest side being attached to a plate or bar, the type being provided with a dovetailed notch on the side edge to iit the same, onto which dovetailed rod the type intended for distribution had to be strung, those rods, with the type thereon, being passed over similar vertical rods below, it being intended that the type should pass from one Whether this was practical or not need not be here discussed, assuch rods form no part of my invention.

I am aware that in Letters PatentNoL126,262, granted to Orren L. Brown, April 30, 1872, there is shown, described, and claimed a typecell set at an incline to receive the type, and having a longitudinal rib along its bottom for the purpose of preventing injury to the foot of the type and relieving the same from friction. The rib described and shown in said patent I do not claim as being any part of' my invention, as the said rib, constructed as shown and operating as described, is not in the least degree adapted to serve as a means for holding the type from canting sidewise or edgewise when.descending a vertical receiving-cell from its upper open end, as is the feather or guide b, employed by myself in this invention, which feather or guide can so operate only when adapted to operate in conjunction with a corre spondin g and suitable notch provided espe` cially therefor inthe foot ofthe type, and which will present sides having such a sufficient extension ofembracing-surt'ace as will be adapted to embrace the sides of the guides or feathers to hold the type from turning, while at the same time it allows the type to freely descend.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a type-distributer,or distributer and setter combined, the combination, with a vertical type-receiving channel, of a feather or guide, b, extending from the rear wall of the same into said channel, and adapted to operate in conjunction with a notch made in the foot of the type, and thereby cause a holding of said type from canting sidewise, substantially as described.

2. In a vertical receivingchannel of a typedistributer, or combined distributer and setter, and in combination therewith, the feather or guide b, in combination with the guides c, substantially as described.

DEXTER REYNOLDS.

Witnesses: f

RICHARD P. DUMARY, CHARLES SELKIRK. 

